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Emilie Lemakis, an artist and guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at her studio in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn on March 4, 2022. Lemakiss project of making buttons that show the wages and years of service of museum guards has taken on an extra resonance as their union pushes for a raise. Sarah Blesener/The New York Times.
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK, NY.- For decades Emilie Lemakis has made art rooted in the experiences and ephemera of her daily life. Her work includes abstract charcoal drawings of the kitchen drain and lightbulbs inside the apartment in Boston where she lived during art school. Her Ceremonial Sit-Down Throne recognizes the many years she has spent standing guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is an homage to the chair from someone whose work seldom involves the use of one. Its materials include donations from other guards: dry cleaning bags that once held freshly pressed uniforms. Now she is in the midst of another project that draws upon her position at the museum, a job she said she has loved since she began walking the corridors of the Met in 1994. In January, she began making buttons for herself and fellow guards that state how long theyve worked at the museum and how much they are paid per hour. Hers reads 27 Years $22.65 HR. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, Nate Lowman: Let's Go, David Zwirner, New York, March 10-April 16, 2022, 2022. Courtesy David Zwirner.
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| Fossil of Vampire Squid's oldest ancestor is named for Biden | | Skinner Auctioneers announces two concurrent Asian Works of Art auctions | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new works by Awol Erizku |
An artists reconstruction of Syllipsimopodi bideni in Montana about 330 million year ago, when the area was submerged beneath a tropical bay. K. Whalen/Christopher Whalen via The New York Times.
by Sabrina Imbler
NEW YORK, NY.- About 328 million years ago, Fergus County, Montana, was no stranger to monsoons. Back then, the region was a marine bay, much like the Bay of Bengal in South Asia. The tropical storms regularly flushed the bay with freshwater and fine sediments, feeding algal blooms and depleting the water of oxygen in certain spots. Anything that died in these spots could have the rare posthumous luck of being preserved, undisturbed. When an ancient octopus died in these waters, its soft, squishy body was buried and pristinely fossilized. The fossil was originally donated to the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada in 1988 but sat in a drawer for decades until Christopher Whalen, a paleontologist from the American Museum of Natural History in New York, pulled it out of a drawer and noticed its preserved ... More | |
Famille Rose Tibetan-style Ewer, Penba Hu, China, possibly 18th/19th century, compressed globular with a molded dragon head spout, topped with dish-form mouth, decorated with lotus floral and foliate scrolls and the seven Buddhist emblems against a pink ground, gilt details, turquoise blue interior and base, six-character Qianlong mark on base, ht. 7 3/4 in. Estimate: $2,000-3,000.
MARLBOROUGH, MASS.- Skinner Auctioneers will host two concurrent Asian Works of Art auctions during March 2022. Coinciding with Asia Week in New York, these two auctions will offer a refined selection of jade pieces, rare ceramics of Song to Qing periods, a broad range of brilliant famille rose, enchanting paintings and rare Buddhist stone sculptures. With one auction hosted online, from March 14, 2022 12 p.m to March 24, 2022 07 p.m., and one hosted live on March 23, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. in its Marlborough galleries, the sales offer the public multiple options to bid. Skinner will also host an in-person preview during Asia Week of Jim Dixon's famed antique carpet collection. Highlighting a selection of notable pieces, the preview will ... More | |
Awol Erizku, Falcon (wings), 2022. Duratrans on lightbox, 60 13/16 x 49 5/16 in. 154.5 x 125.2 cm. Edition of 3 + 2 AP © Awol Erizku. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Memories of a Lost Sphinx, an exhibition of new works by Awol Erizku. Installed in a black-painted interior, a set of six lightbox photographs accompanied by a mixed-media sculpture represent the sphinx as a complex, cross-cultural symbol that extends between and beyond Ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Asian mythologies. Organized by Antwaun Sargent, this is Erizkus first exhibition at the gallery. Erizku works in photography, film, sculpture, painting, and installation, making reference to spirituality, art history, and hip-hop; in the process, he aims to craft a new vernacular that bridges the gap between African and African American visual cultures. Further developing his Afro-esoteric iconography in Memories of a Lost Sphinx, Erizku explores the intersections of ancient mythology, diasporic tradition, and contemporary culture. The sphinx is a hybrid creature with human and animal attributes: ... More |
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| Geffen Halls $550 million makeover is fully funded | | Efie Gallery launches today with El Anatsui exhibition | | Like cheetahs, ancient ocean creatures may have moved with a gallop |
In an image provided by DBOX for TWBTA shows, an artistic rendering of the exterior of the renovated David Geffen Hall. The New York Philharmonics home will reopen in October, a year and a half ahead of schedule, after construction was accelerated during the pandemic. DBOX for TWBTA and Lincoln Center via the New York Times.
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- Gone are the mustard-colored seats and shoebox interior of David Geffen Hall, the New York Philharmonics home at Lincoln Center. When the hall reopens this fall, wavy beechwood will wrap around the stage and so will the audience, in seats upholstered in richly colored patterns evoking flower petals in motion. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, paralyzing the performing arts, the orchestra and center seized on the long shutdown to accelerate a planned makeover of Geffen Hall, gutting its main theater and reimagining its public spaces. Now the long-delayed overhaul is almost complete. The projects leaders announced Wednesday that they had raised their ... More | |
Silent one, Aluminium and copper wire, 320 x 310 cm, image courtesy-Efie Gallery
DUBAI.- Efiɛ Gallery launched their new permanent Dubai gallery space in he Al Quoz Creative Zone on Tuesday 8th March 2022, with a major solo exhibition, titled Shard Song, of works from renowned contemporary artist, El Anatsui curated by Mae-Ling Lokko and creatively directed by Aida Muluneh. The exhibition presents a series of new wooden sculptures that recall Anatsuis earlier practice in this medium and its continued evolution, complimented by a range of signature bottle cap works. Co-founded by Kobi Mintah, Kwame Mintah, and Ms. Valentina Mintah, Efiɛ Gallery is a contemporary art gallery specialising in the promotion of African artists from within the continent and the diaspora, with a focus on West African art. The gallery represents both mid-career and established artists and supports the sharing of their works in the Middle East, creating a platform for collaboration and exchange between the two regions. The ... More | |
Long before vertebrates moved to land, a study finds, some organisms moved with asymmetrical gaits.
by Sam Jones
NEW YORK, NY.- Cheetahs are the fastest animals on land, clocking in at speeds of more than 60 mph. Salamanders, in comparison, run at a far more measured pace. While cheetahs are exponentially larger and stronger than salamanders, another big difference between the two is how they move their gait. When cheetahs chase prey, they move with an asymmetrical gait specifically, they gallop, just like horses their forelimbs and hindlimbs moving in pairs. Salamanders, on the other hand, run with a symmetrical gait, their left and right limbs moving opposite each other. Historically, scientists believed that symmetrical gaits were more evolutionarily ancient salamanders being the model for how the first terrestrial animals moved. Conversely, asymmetrical gaits like galloping and bounding were believed to have independently evolved in different species ... More |
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| The camera likes her, and the feeling is mutual | | Green Art Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Nazgol Ansarinia | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new and recent works by Pat Steir |
Guinevere van Seenus at home in Redding, Conn., Feb. 17, 2022. After decades of modeling, Guinevere van Seenus, mega-muse of the 1990s, has begun a new chapter in life and love. Jody Rogac/The New York Times.
by Thessaly La Force
NEW YORK, NY.- Like many successful romances, the one between model and photographer Guinevere van Seenus and writer and podcaster Beau Friedlander had a middleman: van Seenus three-legged dog, Ashley. He was just the weird guy at the dog park, van Seenus, 45, teasingly recalled of her first encounter with Friedlander five years ago. She was sitting at the dining table of the Connecticut farmhouse that she and Friedlander bought together last year. Ashley a so-called Velcro dog, uninterested in anyone except her owner had taken an instant liking to Friedlander and his two dogs. She started waiting for Beau and his dogs, van Seenus said. She would sit on the top of the picnic bench ... More | |
Nazgol Ansarinia, Lakes drying tides rising, 2022.
DUBAI.- Water features are an integral component of Iranian architecture. Homes and gardens traditionally featured a shallow pool or howz, which was variously used to cool and humidify the dry air, for washing and other household activities, or simply to create beauty. During the prosperous 1960s, swimming pools were added into the mix. Yet looking at Tehran from above reveals a curious phenomenon. Empty pools pock wealthier areas of the city like air bubbles or little icepick scars. Surprisingly for a dense city where space is at a premium, these pools are rarely leveled, filled in or repurposed. Instead they seem to remain as receptacles of memory, waiting for an absent future that might never arrive. Nazgol Ansarinias practice is intimately concerned with the built environment of her city, the effects of unfettered development, and demarcations between public and private space. What is left behindthe scars, the traces, what is sutured back togetheris as important as what g ... More | |
Pat Steir. Photo by Grace Roselli for the Pandora's BoxX Project.
ROME.- Gagosian is presenting Pat Steir: Paintings, an exhibition of new and recent works by the renowned American painter. Opening at Gagosian Rome on March 10, 2022, this is her first solo exhibition with the gallery. With a storied career spanning more than five decades, Pat Steir is a trailblazing presence in contemporary painting. She was one of the few women who came to prominence in the New York art scene of the 1970s, initially pairing iconic images and texts to interrogate the nature of representation. However, in the mid-1980s, inspired by East Asian art and philosophy, she adopted a looser, more performative approach to painting. Harnessing the forces of gravity and gesture, she developed techniques of pouring, splashing, and brushing thinned paint onto canvas, often working at a monumental scale. Influenced in part by John Cages embrace of chance operations as a compositional strategy in music, and informed by Chinese ink ... More |
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| David Zwirner opens an exhibition of new paintings by Nate Lowman | | An architect who mixes water and nature to build resilience | | MARC STRAUS opens an exhibition of works by Rona Pondick |
Nate Lowman, Sandy Poppy, 2022 © Nate Lowman. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Nate Lowman at the gallerys 533 West 19th Street location in New York. Lowman has become known for deftly mining images culled from art history, the news, and popular media, transforming visual signifiers from these distinct sources into a diverse body of paintings, sculptures, and installations. Since the early 2000s, the artist has continually pushed the boundaries of his multimedia approach with works that are at turns critical, humorous, political, and poetic. In his work, Lowman stages an encounter with commonplace, universally recognizable motifs, questioning and revisiting their intended meanings while creating new narratives in the process. The exhibition features a series of new large-scale, vibrantly saturated paintings that depicts false color satellite renderings of hurricanes which have struck the United States in recent decades with in ... More | |
In an image provided by Watcharapon Nimwatanagul, the Thai landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom, whose firm, Landprocess, focuses on social and environmental transformation through projects like canal gardens, water-storing parks and rooftop farms. With climate change bringing harsher rains and rising waters, Kotchakorn Voraakhom designs landscapes to alleviate flooding and add greenery. Watcharapon Nimwatanagul via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kotchakorn Voraakhom, 43, is a Thai landscape architect whose firm, Landprocess, focuses on social and environmental transformation through projects like canal gardens, water-storing parks and rooftop farms. Q: You grew up in Bangkok, received your masters degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and worked for landscape architecture firms in the United States before returning to Bangkok and starting your own firm. Your work combines both international and local perspectives. What is the advantage of this approach? A: Responding to climate change is not something generic. We need to tailor each solution to a culture and a setting ... More | |
Double Burnt Umber, 2019-21. Pigmented resin and acrylic, 14 x 8.25 x 8.25 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- MARC STRAUS is presenting Rona Pondicks second solo exhibition with the gallery. Nearly a decade ago, building on the formal vocabulary of her earlier work, Pondick began experimenting with acrylic, resin, and rich color. Using the language of the body in her sculptures, in both a literal and a metaphorical sense, she is interested in the idea of transformation and the elasticity of meaning while being spellbound by the materiality of sculpture. Seeking out cutting-edge technologies and at the same time keeping sculpting as a hands-on process, she explores ideas based on natural phenomena such as metamorphosis and mutation. This latest body of work that Pondick created in the past two years is about intimacy, introspection, and truthfulness. Concurrent with the transformative times we live in, and after decades of working in large scale often for the outdoors, Pondick eventually surrendered to a long-nurtured desire to creat ... More |
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'The Chinese Lady' casts a long look at hate
NEW YORK, NY.- Afong Moy is known as The Chinese Lady, but really she is just a girl 14 when she arrives alone in New York in 1834, brought by a pair of merchant brothers who struck a deal with her father back in Guangzhou province to put her in a museum for two years, on display. Possibly the first Chinese woman in the United States, she is marketed as a curiosity. Crowds pay to ogle her as she brews tea, eats with chopsticks and walks around the room on her bound feet. Its a performance of cultural identity, and she is happy to enact it enthusiastic, even, at the start. Cheerfully naive, unsuspecting of the worlds cruelty, she views herself as an educator, fostering understanding. Thank you for coming to see me, she says to her gawkers, who are also us: the audience at the Public ... More
Edmund Keeley dies at 94; Shined a light on modern Greek culture
NEW YORK, NY.- Edmund Keeley, who as a novelist, translator, scholar and poet brought an appreciation of modern Greek literature and culture to the English-speaking world, died on Feb. 23 at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. He was 94. Alan Miller, the son of Keeleys partner, Anita Miller, said the cause was complications of a blood clot. When Keeley began his career at Princeton University in 1954, Greece was still considered a land lost in time, at least for many Americans. Having spent part of his childhood there his father was the U.S. consul in Thessaloniki Keeley knew otherwise. He started translating modern Greek poets like George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis. Both those poets later won the Nobel Prize in literature a feat at least partly attributable to Keeley, who not ... More
Conrad Janis, father on 'Mork & Mindy' and much more, dies at 94
NEW YORK, NY.- Conrad Janis, an actor familiar to television viewers as Mindys father on the hit sitcom Mork & Mindy who was also a skilled jazz musician and a gallerist well known in the New York art world, died on March 1 in Los Angeles. He was 94. Dean A. Avedon, his business manager, confirmed the death. Janis, a child of the noted art collectors and gallerists Sidney and Harriet (Grossman) Janis, moved easily between the worlds of high art, jazz and acting, sometimes switching one hat for another in the same evening. Conrad Janis Is Glad to Live Three Lives, the headline on a 1962 Newsday article read. At the time he was starring in the romantic comedy Sunday in New York on Broadway and, after the Friday and Saturday night performances, playing trombone with his group, the T ... More
Tony Awards to announce prizes in June at Radio City Music Hall
NEW YORK, NY.- This years Tony Awards will take place on June 12 at Radio City Music Hall as the theater industry seeks to settle in to some sort of new normal following the enormous disruption of the coronavirus pandemic. The ceremony like the one in September that coincided with the reopening of many theaters after the lengthy lockdown will be bisected, with one hour streamed by Paramount+, followed by a three-hour broadcast on CBS that is likely to be heavy on the razzle-dazzle. The Tonys, which honor plays and musicals staged on Broadway, are an important moment for the theater community because the awards are valued by artists and because the event serves to market the art form and the industry. The awards, formally known as the Antoinette Perry Awards, are pr ... More
Printed & Manuscript African Americana at Swann March 24
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries Thursday, March 24 sale Printed Manuscript & African Americana sale will feature important material, from slavery through the civil rights era and into the current period. Featured is a run of items from the collection of the late Jack Greenberg. After succeeding founder and mentor Thurgood Marshall, Greenberg served as the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984. While working under Marshall, he helped argue numerous civil rights cases before the Supreme Court and elsewhere, most notably Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. After 1984, Greenberg served as a dean and professor at Columbia. Highlights from the offering include a first edition of Martin Luther Kings 1964 book Why We Cant Wait, in which King reflects on his 196 ... More
Nara Roesler opens the first solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Marcelo Silveira
NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler New York is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Marcelo Silveira (1962), in the United States. The show is curated by Moacir dos Anjos, who notably curated the 29th Bienal of São Paulo and the 30th Panorama of Brazilian Art, the two most significant shows of contemporary art in Brazil. The presentation brings together works from different periods within the artists oeuvre, (ranging from 2005 to 2021), with a particular focus on his practice with Cajacatinga, a native wood from the Brazilian Atlantic forest. In Pernambuco, where the artist lives and works, this wood has been extensively logged to open land for the cultivation of sugarcane, and is now almost extinct, with mostly only roots remaining, themselves burnt successively during seasonal fir ... More
Everything here is tabboo!
NEW YORK, NY.- So much has changed and so radically about New York over the 40 years since artist Stephen Tashjian best known by his drag moniker, Tabboo! first took occupancy on his light-filled walk-up in a stolid apartment house called the Mildred that it is hard to believe that, back in 1982, his was one of just three buildings standing on his stretch of East Fifth Street. Alphabet City was mostly rubbled lots back then. Stumbling home from the bars or from one of the many gigs doorman, line cook, florist, dishwasher, go-go dancer he took to patch together a livelihood, Tashjian routinely passed boarded-up buildings with holes hammered through the walls to create shooting galleries. He tiptoed in his heels through vacant lots littered with glassine envelopes stamped with the names of what ... More
Cities and states are Eeasing COVID rules. Should the arts follow?
NEW YORK, NY.- When music fans walked beneath the familiar piano-shaped awning and into the dark embrace of the Blue Note Jazz Club in Manhattan this week, a late-pandemic fixture was missing: No one was checking proof of vaccination and photo IDs. A special guest visited to herald the change. Good to be back out, New York City Mayor Eric Adams told the overwhelmingly maskless audience Monday, the day the city stopped requiring proof of vaccination at restaurants and entertainment venues. I consider myself the nightlife mayor, so Im going to assess the product every night. It is a different story uptown, where Carnegie Hall continues to require masks and vaccines and the Metropolitan Opera goes even further, requiring that all eligible people show proof that they have received boo ... More
Fans of Western Americana flock to Holabirds Western Trails & Treasures Premier Auction
RENO, NV.- Fans of Western Americana turned out in droves for Holabirds massive, four-day Western Trails & Treasures Premier Auction, held February 24th thru 27th, online and live in the gallery located at 3555 Airway Drive in Reno. Nearly 2,500 lots crossed the auction block in a wide array of categories, at price points that appealed to novice collectors and seasoned veterans. The sale was loaded with important collections, to include Part 2 of the Ron Lerch Western directory collection; Part 2 of the Joe Elcano Nevada collection; more from the Ken Prag railroad stock collection; more from the Stuart MacKenzie Montana collection; the Bill McKivor mining, numismatic and Americana collection and more, plus great rarities from other private collections. Following are highlights from the auction. Online ... More
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The Wild Game
Murillo: Picturing the Prodigal Son
The 8 X Jeff Koons
Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo
Flashback On a day like today, sculptor and furniture designer Harry Bertoia was born March 10, 1915. Harry Bertoia (March 10, 1915 in San Lorenzo, Pordenone, Italy - November 6, 1978 in Barto, Pennsylvania), was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer. In this image: Since 2000, Wright has sold more than 550 sculptures by Bertoia -- more than any other auction house or gallery.
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